Updated on 2024/12/09

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YAMAGISHI Daijiro
 
Name of department
Faculty of Tourism, Support Office for Tourism Education and Practice
Job title
Project Assistant Professor
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Education

  • 2022
    -
    2023

    University of Central Lancashire   The School of Humanities, Languages, and Global Studies  

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    Exchange Studnet

  • 2021
    -
    2023

    Wakayama University   Graduate School of Tourism  

  • 2016
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    2021

    Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism  

Degree

  • Master of Tourism   2023

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2023.04
    -
    Now

    Wakayama University   Center for Tourism Research   Researcher

  • 2023.04
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    2024.12

    Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism   Project Assistant Professor

  • 2023.11

    Vern' University   Guest Lecturer

  • 2021.09
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    2022.02

    Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism   Research Assistant

  • 2021.04
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    2023.03

    Wakayama University   Center for Tourism Research   Visiting Junior Fellow

  • 2021.04
    -
    2022.08

    Wakayama University   Library   Leaning Advisor

  • 2021
    -
    2022

    Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism   Teaching Assistant

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Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Local studies

  • Humanities & social sciences / Tourism studies

  • Humanities & social sciences / Human geography / Mobilities

Independent study

  • 2023   湯浅の若者と共につくる本気の商品開発！

  • 2023   地区×学生による観光・文化・交流情報発信と棚田の再生

Research Interests

  • Rural Tourism Development

  • Proximatizing tourism

  • Tourism Education

  • DMO

  • Quallitative Methodologies

  • Lifestyle Mobilities

  • Ethnography

  • Tourism & Fashion

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Published Papers

  • Dressing up the place: Urban lifestyle mobilities and the production of “fashionable” tourism destinations in rural Japan

    Yamagishi, D., Doering, A. （Part： Lead author,　Corresponding author )

    Tourism Management   106   2025.02  [Refereed]

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    The past three decades of neoliberal structural reforms in Japan has established tourism policy favoring privatization, deregulation, and flexible mobility of capital to encourage decentralized markets. Within this system, attracting skilled urban migrants to rural regions has emerged as a central component of planning and development. Drawing on Kawamura’s theory of fashion-ology, this study details the process of how rural tourism destinations are produced and (re)fashioned by urban-to-rural lifestyle migrants who bring new practices, aesthetics, and meanings to place. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021/2022 in the rural coastal town of Aoshima, we outline the co-constitutive dynamic between “star migrants”, industry “gatekeepers”, and “consumers as producers” in the production and consumption of “fashionable” rural destinations. The article contributes to literature on how rural tourism destinations are governed in contemporary neoliberal societies and provides insights into the unequal urban-to-rural power relations that continue to define Japan’s regional revitalization programs.

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  • Development of a Tax-Free Shopping Environment in Japan: An Analysis of Its Representations in a Financial Newspaper

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Hayato Nagai （Part： Lead author )

    Tourism Planning & Development ( Informa UK Limited )  21 ( 5 ) 530 - 549   2024  [Refereed]

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  • Dressing up the place: Fashionable lifestyle mobilities and the production of a rural tourism destination in Miyazaki, Japan

    Daijiro Yamagishi （Part： Lead author )

        2023.01

  • "Producers” of place: Fashionable lifestyle mobilities and the production of tourism destinations in rural Japan.

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Adam Doering （Part： Lead author )

    CAUTHE 2022 Conference: Shaping the next normal in tourism, hospitality and events     672 - 675   2022.01  [Refereed]

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    This study examines how tourism destinations are being produced and fashioned by urban-to-rural lifestyle migrants who bring new practices, aesthetics and meaning to place. To better understand how places are re-fashioned for and by tourism, we draw on the case rural tourism development in Miyazaki, Japan. Post-economic bubble Japan has become increasingly dependent on neoliberal reforms to tourism policy and planning. Flexibility, mobility, and decentralised markets now characterise tourism policy. Within this context, attracting high skilled urban migrants to rural areas has become an important tool of rural revitalisation and tourism development. Such migrants have informally been referred to as yosomono, wakamono, bakamono (Japanese for outsiders, young, crazy), who are expected to contribute to rural economic development. The “star migrants” for governments and DMOs are referred to, and self-identify as, a purodusa (Japanese for producer). These “producers” have the skills, national and transnational networks, and finances to invest in rural redevelopment projects, and in turn, play a critical role in redesigning rural Japan, often with an urban sensibility and style. In this working paper we turn to Kawamura’s (2018) concept of “fashion-ology” to examine how these fashionable lifestyle migrants “produce place”, paying particular attention to the role of fashion in the remaking of Miyazaki’s tourism spaces and places. Although still in the early stages of this research, we offer preliminary insights from fieldwork conducted in July 2021, focusing on the discourses, power relations and legitimization processes of these fashionable lifestyle mobilities.

  • The rapidly changing tax-free shopping environment in Japan: An analysis of a major financial newspaper.

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Hayato Nagai （Part： Lead author )

    Proceedings of Asia Pacific CHRIE 2020: Still Connected Undivided     186 - 190   2020.10  [Refereed]

Misc

  • KLIEN, Susanne: Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society

    YAMAGISHI Daijiro （Part： Lead author )

    Geographical Review of Japan Series B ( Geographical review of Japan series B )  96 ( 1 ) 38 - 40   2023.09

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Works

  • APA Style 7the Edition 引用文献リスト作成

    和歌山大学図書館, パスファインダー N 

    2021
     Educational material

  • 日本語での引用文献リスト作成

    和歌山大学図書館 パスファインダー No. 24 

    2021
     Educational material

Awards & Honors

  • The Best Master's Thesis Award - 1st Place

    2023.03   Graduate School of Tourism, Wakayama University  

  • Shool Dean's Award

    2021.08   Graduate School of Tourism, Wakayama University  

  • The Best Thesis Award - 1st Place (Undergraduate)

    2021.03   Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University  

Conference Activities & Talks

  • Undergraduate thesis workshop: The art of literature review

    Daijiro Yamagishi

    Research Week 2024, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University  2024.10.17  

  • Proximatising community-based learning programme in Japan: Rethinking local–university collaboration for transformative tourism education

    Daijiro Yamagishi

    Teaching Tourism Walking Conference 2024 (TeToWaCo 2024)  2024.09.01  

  • Learning-with: Relational pedagogy for tourism education, Conceptualising proximity tourism education

    Critical Tourism Workshop in Japan, Vol. 1  2024.05.18   (Utsunomiya University) 

  • Learning through rhythms: The Nakata Rice Terrace as mobile contact zones.

    Yamagishi Daijiro

    23rd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Tourism and Hospitality Educators  2024.03   (Hokusei Gakuen University) 

  • Dressing up the place: Lifestyle mobilities, fashion and place making in Miyazaki, Japan.

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Adam Doering

    T2M 20th annual conference | joint T2M & MoHu hybrid conference | Padua 2022  2022.09  

  • Weaving Fashion into the Tourism Literature: An Integrative Review

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Doering Adam

    観光学術学会第１１回大会  2022.07  

  • “Producers” of place: Fashionable lifestyle mobilities and the production of tourism destinations in rural Japan.

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Adam Doering

    CAUTHE 2022 Conference: Shaping the next normal in tourism, hospitality and events.  2022.02  

    　View Summary

    This study examines how tourism destinations are being produced and fashioned by urban-to-rural lifestyle migrants who bring new practices, aesthetics and meaning to place. To better understand how places are re-fashioned for and by tourism, we draw on the case rural tourism development in Miyazaki, Japan. Post-economic bubble Japan has become increasingly dependent on neoliberal reforms to tourism policy and planning. Flexibility, mobility, and decentralised markets now characterise tourism policy. Within this context, attracting high skilled urban migrants to rural areas has become an important tool of rural revitalisation and tourism development. Such migrants have informally been referred to as yosomono, wakamono, bakamono (Japanese for outsiders, young, crazy), who are expected to contribute to rural economic development. The “star migrants” for governments and DMOs are referred to, and self-identify as, a purodusa (Japanese for producer). These “producers” have the skills, national and transnational networks, and finances to invest in rural redevelopment projects, and in turn, play a critical role in redesigning rural Japan, often with an urban sensibility and style. In this working paper we turn to Kawamura’s (2018) concept of “fashion-ology” to examine how these fashionable lifestyle migrants “produce place”, paying particular attention to the role of fashion in the remaking of Miyazaki’s tourism spaces and places. Although still in the early stages of this research, we offer preliminary insights from fieldwork conducted in July 2021, focusing on the discourses, power relations and legitimization processes of these fashionable lifestyle mobilities.

  • The development of inbound tourism and tax-free shopping in Japan: An analysis of a major financial newspaper.

    山岸 大二郎

    和歌山大学観光学会第１０回大会  2021.03  

  • The rapidly changing tax-free shopping environment in Japan: An analysis of a major financial newspaper.

    Daijiro Yamagishi, Hayato Nagai

    Asia Pacific CHRIE 2020: Still Connected Undivided  2020.10  

  • Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism industry: The case of the Japanese retail sector.

    山岸 大二郎

    観光学術学会第９回大会学生ポスターセッション  2020.07  

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